Sir,—I am writing to draw the attention of your readers, and especially your contributors, to a serious problem. Recently The Atlantic magazine conducted an investigation into the activities of Meta, the social media company, and how it built up its database of texts to train its flagship AI model, Llama 3. This is used not … Read more
Sir,—The letter by Mr John Stocks Powell (HI 33.2, March/April 2025), elucidating a hostile cartoon on the passage of the Catholic Relief Act, is very interesting and we are in his debt, but a couple of details could do with further explanation. The man in black robes watching Peel and Wellington digging the grave of … Read more
BY DONAL FALLON ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY 195th SHOW OPENS The Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Show has returned, running until August 2025. This is the 195th show and includes plenty that will appeal to readers of History Ireland. Mick O’Dea (RHA past president) presents a series of works capturing Druid’s recent productions of the Seán O’Casey … Read more
Pages from one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish, the Book of Leinster, have gone on display as part of a new exhibition in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, following a major conservation project funded by a grant from the Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project. Written in Old and … Read more
Billy Colfer’s three superb books on Wexford history appeared in the ‘Irish Landscape’ series for Cork University Press, edited by Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout. These books were produced to a high quality, were splendidly illustrated and have stayed in print ever since. The first volume, on the Hook Peninsula (2004), is widely cited as … Read more